Peng Huizu's lips curled into a sneer. There are plenty of rotten apples on the Starry Sky Ancient Path, it seems. Any one of them can smear someone with dirt so smoothly.
As he was reflecting on that, Chen Zhaohai completely lost his nerve. "Third Uncle, Third Uncle, he... that Peng fellow really colluded with Hong Tianming? Then... then aren't we—"
Third Ancestor Chen swung his great hand and struck Chen Zhaohai between the brows. Chen Zhaohai dropped unconscious without so much as a groan.
Then he turned to Peng Huizu. "That's about enough, isn't it?"
Peng Huizu stared toward the spot where the grand array was under attack. The Formation Spirit there had grown as thin as paper. "It's time. If we let those fellows storm the island, we'll be in trouble."
"Third Uncle, Judge Peng, what are you talking about? Do we have another card up our sleeve?"
Chen Zhaojiang said excitedly, "Judge Peng, could it be... could it be that you deliberately left that opening when you took the opportunity to reorganize the forces? But... but that was far too ruthless.
You must have taken a huge risk.
Right, right. Reorganizing the forces then made sense, after all. The original troops were all Lu Zhongyi's people, and the reorganization was meant to build up combat strength quickly to deal with the crisis on the Starry Sky Ancient Path.
Could it be that even sending me as an envoy to the Big Dipper Palace was just a feint, to make this scheme more convincing? You knew the Big Dipper Palace would take advantage of the chaos and attack us?"
Peng Huizu smiled. "The Big Dipper Palace didn't want to take advantage of the chaos and attack us. Ning Wuyou was bound to avenge her little sweetheart. I've gone